Tiger Woods’ Caddie Speaks Out: ‘I Knew Nothing’

Tiger Woods broke his silence. Now, his longtime caddie Steve Williams is following suit.

In a new interview with New Zealand’s “60 Minutes,” Williams lashed out at Woods for dragging him into the golfer’s very public scandal.

“It’s been the most difficult time of my life – no two ways about it – because every single person believed that I should know or did know or had something to do with it,” Williams told the program, which aired on Wednesday night. ‘‘Of course I’m mad at him, why would you not be? I’m close with his wife and he’s got two lovely children and he’s let them down.”

Williams, who has been Woods’ caddie since 1999, insisted he had no knowledge of the golfer’s admitted “infidelity” over the years.

“I knew nothing and that’s my answer,” he continued. “I don’t have to clarify or extend that answer. I knew nothing… It would be very difficult as a caddie not to know but I’m 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing and that’s that… No one that has ever watched him on a golf course would suspect anything would be going on. I’m under siege, it’s been a difficult time, there’s no two ways about it.’’

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In fact, Williams – who has laid low at his home in New Zealand since the scandal erupted — said if he had known what Woods was doing away from the course, he wouldn’t have kept quiet.

’‘I’m a straight-up sort of person. If I had known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown,’’ he added.

Yet through it all, Williams said he still supports his longtime friend Woods.

’‘He’s getting enough grilling from everybody else…. When you’re a true friend of somebody, that’s when somebody needs your support and needs you the most. That’s when you don’t walk away. Tiger’s one of my closest friends and he needs my support right now and I’d never think of walking away,” Williams said.

Woods broke his own silence on February 19, when he gave a 13-minute televised speech in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., where he pledged to “become a better person.”